The traveling Cultivating Creativity 2014-2015: Consolidated Communications Children’s Art Exhibit will be at Paris Public Library on August 4-22 during normal library hours. It showcases outstanding art by 51 students in east-central Illinois school art programs from the 2013-2014 school year.

Join us in the library's Gibson Room at 6pm on August 6 to learn about the nightly, monthly, and yearly patterns of the stars, moon, and planets in the sky, as well as the causes of those patterns.

Holly Hudson, from Allen Memorial Planetarium in Terre Haute, will talk about the night sky and public programs at the planetarium. Participants will receive star charts to take home as well as information as to how to use a star chart to find constellations in the sky.

Paris Public Library now offers ABCmouse.com on our public computers and on your own laptop or other wireless device while in the library.

The award-winning ABCmouse.com curriculum is designed to help young children (ages 2-6+) build a strong foundation for future academic success. ABCmouse.com is 100% educational, with 3,500+ learning activities across all major subject areas—reading, math, science, social studies, art, and music.

Our Book Club meets in the library's Gibson Room at 5pm on the 3rd Thursday of each month. The group has chosen a wide variety of books to read and discuss in the coming months. Everyone is welcome. All you have to do is read the book and come to the discussion.